The attack took place shortly after noon outside the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square.

As it is, Cairo has the finest Egyptian museum of antiquities in the world.

Basalt statue of Cleopatra: Image courtesy of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California

Thieves at the Egyptian Museum damaged two mummies from the time of the pharaohs.

In May, a blast near Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum injured at least 12 South African tourists.

It is preserved in the Egyptian Museum at Turin.]

The Great Egyptian Museum at Giza, designed by Dublin architects Heneghan Peng, is scheduled to open in 2013.

There were a few tourists at the Egyptian Museum, which houses the world's biggest collection of Pharaonic treasures.

Tantawi, accompanied by senior army officials, spoke to the army at the square's northern entrance, near the Egyptian Museum.

Boarding a train to take us to Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum, my partner laughed at my Cheshire grin.

A device went off close to where the Grand Egyptian Museum is being built near the pyramids in Giza.

The Egyptian Museum in Berlin, for instance, contains a colourful vase decorated with his mask-like features and mane-like hair.

April 30 - A suicide bomber wounds seven, including two Israelis, an Italian and a Swede, near the Egyptian museum.

The town hall, as well as the Egyptian Museum, is on the Breedstraat, the longest and finest street in Leyden.

The story of "Aïda" came from Mariette Bey, who was then director of the Egyptian Museum at Boulak.

In a second bombing near the Egyptian museum three weeks later, seven people were wounded and the bomber was killed.